That doesn't help in this case: for example a US highway crosses multiple states, but is always assigned the same shield. And there is nothing in standard tagging (that I remember) to distinguish a county from state road - I follow the general recommendation that US=primary, state=secondary, most major county roads=tertiary. Those in other regions may promote the small roads based on lane count, max speed, etc.
-------------- Original message from John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: --------------
> On 1 March 2010 03:17, Mike Nwrote:
> > Is there a good argument to omitting the state abbreviation from the
> > ref? Will the end result of changing to just a number be usable by the
> > "Highway Shields" project? The common reference "County road 49" comes to
>
> You can use admin boundaries to derive country, state, and county information.
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